Identifying genetic signatures of selection in a non-model species, alpine gentian (Gentiana nivalis L.), using a landscape genetic approach

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 467-481

  Bothwell, Helen ^a   Bisbing, Sarah ^b   Therkildsen, Nina Overgaard ^c   Crawford, Lindsay ^d   Alvarez, Nadir ^e   Holderegger, Rolf ^f   Manel, Stéphanie ^g  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^g Aix Marseille University Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive genetic variation; Allele distribution models; Climate change; Landscape genetics; Outlier locus detection; Principle coordinates of neighbor matrices

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HERB; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION MODELING; PRESERVATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ALPS;

GENTIANA; GENTIANA NEWBERRYI; GENTIANA NIVALIS;

EID: 84875729664     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-012-0411-5     Document Type: Article

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